The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-25

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| Not NourIsh the Tissues-Facts Well
! Established aud Weil-Known to Tenn
/ perance Advocates.
An editorial in the open Court DEM
onstratcs how far the Temperance re-
form has outstrippcd the knowledge.
rs well rs the compass, of its Oppo-
ncnts. The article in question might
| have been true twenty-five years ago,
but now il is greatly behind the times.
The author says: Temperance advo-
Gates miss valuable assertions made in
their favor by specialists, because such
things are not sought for in the scien-
tiic writings where they abound" He
certainly can not have read DR. Rich
ardson's Cantor Lectures, Hargrcave's
Alcohol and Science. nor be u reader of
DIR. Crother's journal Of Me6riety, and
Dr. Burnett's journal of Hcredity. to
say nothing of less prctentious works,
or he would know that Temperance
advocates are quite rs familiar rs him.
self with the testimony of Michel,
Guslain, Lunicr and Lord Shaftcsbury.
His statements concerning alcoholic
medication show him to be quite rs far
behind the times. He says that ''in
continued fcvcrS, such as typhoid,
whisky. in suitable doses. is generally
regarded by medical practitioners. to
be The DEMONSTRATING medicine He
evidently has not heard the testimony
of DR.. n. S. Davis. who was chosen TO
preside over the late international
Medical Congress because he is con-
fcsScdly the highest medical authority
in America, and who declares that in
his fifty years practice he has never
found one case of disease, and no
emergency arising from accident that
he could not treat more successfully
without any form of fcrmcnted or dis
distilled liquors than with them" This
sentiment lac reiterated in his address
on taking the chair at the late Medical
Congress. In his latest published
work. he dcvotes IN entire chapter
to non-alchOlc medication, taking
up. among other things, the
case of continued fevers," and
showing how they can be
more successfully treated without alco-
hol than with it. Nor does he stand
alone in this belief; hundreds of Amer
lean physicians are ranging themselves
on his side, while in England the num-
Der of leading physicians who believe
i'm non-alcoholic medication is much
greater than upon this side the water.
Among them we mention DR.. Benja-
min Ward Richardson, who has proba-
bly, made the most exhaustive study of
the effect of alcohol upon the human
system of any man living; entering
upon the study rs firm n believer in its
efficacy as the editor of the Open Court.
but after twenty-five years of such
investigation, he is as firmly convinced
rs DR.. Davis himself of the harmful
ness of alcohol. however administered;
the late DIR. Carpenter, whose physi-
ologyis standard in all medical coll
legcs; Sir Andrew Clark, physician TO
Queen Victoria; Sir Henry Thompson.
Sir William Gull. Dr.. James Edmunds.
and scores Of others whose names car
ry weight with physicians ON both
sides the Atlantic.
DIR. James Edmunds has proven his
faith by mis- works, in conducting his |
great hospital in London upon strictly
principles, and the rec
orJs show that during the thirteen
years of ia existence. the death-ratc
under this treatment has averaged four
and a naH per cent less than In any |
hospital in London, receiving the same
class Of patients aud treating them
Giih alcohol. The typhoid fever wards
have bssE especially noted. as this dis.